Montag September 18, 2006

More Lyon pictures

Freitag September 15, 2006

OpenOffice.org Conference Pictures

Donnerstag September 14, 2006

"Microsoft Vista is still a mess"
"Vista's still a mess. It's meant to be at release candidate stage, yet vendors are struggling to provide sufficient driver support, features are still missing or not yet complete, and its performance compared to XP is still poor. Nowadays hardware is cheap, and it would be sufficiently acceptable to upgrade in anticipation of a wonderfully revolutionary OS. Unfortunately Vista provides little to no benefit for end users compared to that of the previous version of Windows, released five years ago in 2001."
The full article can be found here.
( Sep 14 2006, 03:05:16 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Mittwoch September 13, 2006

New ODF community site announced
A new community site around the OpenDocument Format (ODF) has just been announced. The opendocument.xml.org site has been setup to create a respository and meeting place for people and companies that care about ODF. Please join, participate, and share your knowledge and experiences!
( Sep 13 2006, 01:35:17 PM CEST ) Permalink

Calendar and email client for OpenOffice.org
As Simon Phipps points out in his blog, it was mentioned by Michael Bemmer in the roadmap presentation at the OpenOffice.org Conference that Sun is supporting the Mozilla Lightning community in order to create a cross-platform calendar and email client. Actually, I'm already a big fan of Thunderbird and Lightning! It runs nicely on my Solaris laptop. If you want to hear more about the OpenOffice.org roadmap, keep an eye on the OpenOffice.org Conference media coverage and look for the roadmap presentation "OpenOffice.org 2.x and beyond".
( Sep 13 2006, 01:30:30 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

OpenOffice.org Conference Media Coverage by Kiberpipa
Kiberpipa, like last year in Koper Slovenia, is providing video streaming services and video archives for this year's OpenOffice.org Conference again. You can find the OOoCon media archive here. Yesterday, at the reception I talked to someone from the Netherlands who unfortunately was not able to attend last year's conference in Koper. He told me that he more or less spent the whole day watching the video streams in order to participate in the conference as much as possible. The more and more videos he watched, the more and more he regretted that he did not come to Koper. Fortunately, he was able to come this year.

Great job and thanks a lot to Kiberpipa for connecting our community members who could not be part of this event otherwise!
( Sep 13 2006, 01:05:59 PM CEST ) Permalink

Freitag September 08, 2006

Belgium ministries are evaluating OpenOffice.org
According to this article (and if my Dutch translation is correct), the Belgium Ministry of Finance and the Belgium Ministry of Justice are evaluating OpenOffice.org.
( Sep 08 2006, 05:15:26 AM CEST ) Permalink

Dienstag September 05, 2006

Nice OpenOffice.org feedback
"The features I appreciate in OpenOffice includes lack of weird characters when I cut and paste text from OpenOffice Writer to an HTML editor. Do that with Microsoft Word and you spend time finding and fixing all the bizarre smart quotes and the like that don't transfer. I also like the fact that OpenOffice Writer's word count function (it's important to track the number of words for publications) gives word count numbers for both the highlighted block of text and the full document, while Microsoft Word only shows the count of the selected text or full document.

One feature of OpenOffice makes me laugh at the poor design of Microsoft Office. Have you ever tried to open a file in Word and accidentally clicked an Excel spreadsheet instead? In Microsoft Office, the file opens as garbage characters inside of Word. OpenOffice does it right and starts OpenOffice Calc to properly handle the spreadsheet."

The full article can be found here.
( Sep 05 2006, 08:42:01 PM CEST ) Permalink